The Holy Greyhound
The legend of a dog which is unjustly killed by its master in error, after it has defended his child from attack by a snake or wolf, appears in several popular cultures of Indo-European origin. This book concentrates on one local manifestation of ...
Industry 4.0
Digital technology opens up extraordinary fields for applications that will deeply change the nature of jobs and trade, the very concept of work and the expectations of user-producers. The "masters of algorithms" have disrupted productio...
Road to Social Europe
In the wake of the Greek and Irish crises, and at a moment when solidarity between states is hotly debated on a daily basis at EU level, it is important to understand how 'solidarity' can happen at all. The Road to Social Europe reviews the develo...
From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing 3
With a turnover of some 5-15 billion ? / year, the additive manufacturing has industrial niches bearers thanks to processes and materials more and more optimized. While some niches still exist on the application of additive techniques in tradition...
Love Online
The internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand or the start of a more lasting relationship - can be just a click away. Anyone looking for love onlin...
The Red Cross and the Holocaust
The Red Cross and the Holocaust presents a startling assessment of the role of the world's most famous charity in World War II. Was the Red Cross aware of the appalling sufferings of the victims of the concentration camps? How much did its Interna...
Tredje världens skuldsättning
J-C Berthélemy, professor i ekonomi vid Université de Paris, gör en nyanserat och grundlig analys av tredje världens skuldsättning, som torde intressera både lekmannen och den som är bevandrad i nationalekonomiska teorier. I de fem kapitlen tar ha...
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Acoustic and Electromagnetic Equations
This book is devoted to the study of the acoustic wave equation and of the Maxwell system, the two most common wave equations encountered in physics or in engineering. The main goal is to present a detailed analysis of their mathematical and physi...
Conversion of Herman the Jew
Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the...
Ghosts in the Middle Ages
Through this study, Jean-Claude Schmitt examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the Middle Ages. Schmitt also dis...
Curious History of Love
The one emotion that matters most to many people is the one about which social thinkers rarely speak - love. For many people, love is the thing that matters most in their lives: they are searching for love, hoping to find in love a kind of happine...
Insiders Vol.6: The Dragons of Beijing
Najah's been exfiltrated from the gulag where Russian authorities had thrown her, but she's not out of the woods yet: her benefactors turn out to be Chinese intelligence - the head of which is also one of the secret bosses of the organized crime h...
Gripes
We all know what it's like to be annoyed by little things that our husband, wife or partner does - leaving the cap off the toothpaste tube, leaving the toilet lid up, leaving dirty clothes on the floor - and we know how easily these little grievan...
